Legal Opinion
Horn v. Abernathy
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided April 25, 1986No. Record 821900PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPoff, J.
This is a plaintiffs appeal from a judgment sustaining pleas of the statute of limitations. Invoking Code § 8.01-50, the plaintiff claimed compensatory and punitive damages for death by wrongful act. The wrongful act alleged was medical malpractice, and we must construe the Medical Malpractice Act, Code §§ 8.01-581.1 et seq. (the Act), as applied to the chronology of events disclosed by this record.
Eileen Mays, a patient in Clinch Valley Community Hospital, died there on August 19, 1978. By letter dated August 8, 1980 and mailed by certified mail on August 9, Palmer Mays, her husband and…
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